that continue to maintain pat tents in this country and,over going to sue, as apple did recently, with samsung, accusing it of violating patents, they expect to use the u.s. legal system, even though they really don't have employment here or amount to anything other than token employment. and so one of the things we were thinking about is why should the u.s. -- and being the u.s. taxpayer, basically -- a legal system for the benefit of corporate america if it's not doing any serious employment in this country. >> host: want to start with facebook comments we received for you. this is from tina. tina says: i believe money and politics is our biggest threat to equitable representation in our government. what does your research reveal as far as this issue is concerned? >> guest: well, she is absolutely right. and i think there's widespread agreement on that. in fact it's one of these things that even both parties -- parts of both parties agree to they'd like to get this out of -- some people would, anyway. others make benefit from it. so, we did not explore in great detail in this last book what